Merchant and Bloom win Sondheim Society competition

The Stephen Sondheim Society have announced that Under the Fake Mistletoe by Tarek Merchant and Christmas and You by Charles Bloom are the joint winners in their competition to find a new song for Christmas.

After carefully considering the 45 entries, the judging panel decided it was impossible to separate the two strongest submissions and so it was felt a joint award would be fairest.

The songs will receive a performance at A Christmas Evening With The Sondheim Society in the Leicester Square Theatre Lounge on 16th December. The concert, which starts at 7.00pm, will feature West End artists Alice Fearn and Rachael Louise Miller, plus two past winners of the Society’s prestigious Student Performer of the Year Competition, Kris Olsen (winner 2012) and Turlough Convery (winner 2013). Other cast members are still to be announced, and all appear subject to availability.

All proceeds from the show will be divided between the Society (a registered charity) and another charity (TBA), and tickets cost £15 (£12.50 for Society members). Tickets can be bought from the theatre box office (telephone 08448 733433) or from their website at www.leicestersquaretheatre.com